Author: Roger Martin du GardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
The Thibaults
Author: Roger Martin du GardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
Years of Plenty, Years of Want
Author: Benjamin Franklin MartinPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1609090802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Great War that engulfed Europe between 1914 and 1918 was a catastrophe for France. French soil was the site of most of the fighting on the Western Front. French dead were more than 1.3 million, the permanently disabled another 1.1 million, overwhelmingly men in their twenties and thirties. The decade and a half before the war had been years of plenty, a time of increasing prosperity and confidence remembered as the Belle Epoque or the good old days. The two decades that followed its end were years of want, loss, misery, and fear. In 1914, France went to war convinced of victory. In 1939, France went to war dreading defeat. To explain the burden of winning the Great War and embracing the collapse that followed, Benjamin Martin examines the national mood and daily life of France in July 1914 and August 1939, the months that preceded the two world wars. He presents two titans: Georges Clemenceau, defiant and steadfast, who rallied a dejected nation in 1918, and Edouard Daladier,hesitant and irresolute, who espoused appeasement in 1938 though comprehending its implications. He explores novels by a constellation of celebrated French writers who treated the Great War and its social impact, from Colette to Irène Némirovsky, from François Mauriac to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. And he devotes special attention to Roger Martin du Gard, the1937 Nobel Laureate, whose roman-fleuve The Thibaults is an unrivaled depiction of social unraveling and disillusionment. For many in France, the legacy of the Great War was the vow to avoid any future war no matter what the cost. They cowered behind the Maginot Line, the fortifications along the eastern border designed to halt any future German invasion. Others knew that cost would be too great and defended the "Descartes Line": liberty and truth, the declared values of French civilization. In his distinctive and vividly compelling prose, Martin recounts this struggle for the soul of France.
Lieutenant-colonel de Maumort
Author: Roger Martin Du GardPublisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
The unfinished memoir of a French soldier-philosopher. While describing bourgeois life in France before and after World War I, he ruminates on the futility of individual conscience in the face of evil.
Summer 1914
Author: Roger Martin Du GardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
The gray notebook. The penitentiary
Author: Roger Martin Du GardModes of Faith
Author: Theodore ZiolkowskiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226983668
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion’s place in the minds of many writers and poets. Theodore Ziolkowski here examines the motives for this embrace of the secular, locating new modes of faith in art, escapist travel, socialism, politicized myth, and utopian visions. James Joyce, he reveals, turned to art as an escape while Hermann Hesse made a pilgrimage to India in search of enlightenment. Other writers, such as Roger Martin du Gard and Thomas Mann, sought temporary solace in communism or myth. And H. G. Wells, Ziolkowski argues, took refuge in utopian dreams projected in another dimension altogether. Rooted in innovative and careful comparative reading of the work of writers from France, England, Germany, Italy, and Russia, Modes of Faith is a critical masterpiece by a distinguished literary scholar that offers an abundance of insight to anyone interested in the human compulsion to believe in forces that transcend the individual.
The Quest for Total Peace
Author: R. JouejatiPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714630977
Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
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Literary Wonderlands
Author: Laura MillerPublisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 0316547735
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
A glorious collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of nearly 100 of our most beloved fictional realms. Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans four thousand years of creative endeavor. From Spenser's The Fairie Queene to Wells's The Time Machine to Murakami's 1Q84 it explores the timeless and captivating features of fiction's imagined worlds including the relevance of the writer's own life to the creation of the story, influential contemporary events and philosophies, and the meaning that can be extracted from the details of the work. Each piece includes a detailed overview of the plot and a "Dramatis Personae." Literary Wonderlands is a fascinating read for lovers of literature, fantasy, and science fiction. Laura Miller is the book's general editor. Co-founder of Salon.com, where she worked as an editor and writer for 20 years, she is currently a books and culture columnist at Slate. A journalist and a critic, her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Guardian, and the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the "Last Word" column for two years. She is the author of The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia and editor of the Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors.
The Thibaults
Author: Roger Martin Du GardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 871
Book Description
The Postman
Author: Roger Martin Du GardPublisher: Howard Fertig Pub
ISBN: 9780865273337
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description